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Does pragmatically structured outpatient dietary counselling reduce sodium intake in hypertensive patients? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is highly prevalent among adults, and is the most important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular events, in particular stroke. Decreasing sodium intake has the potential to prevent or delay the development of hypertension and improve blood pressure control, independentl...

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Autores principales: Ruzicka, Marcel, Ramsay, Tim, Bugeja, Ann, Edwards, Cedric, Fodor, George, Kirby, Anne, Magner, Peter, McCormick, Brendan, van der Hoef, Gigi, Wagner, Jessica, Hiremath, Swapnil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4479223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26081765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0794-y